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HMD jB F1LIMSTERS.
The Cruiser Raleigh Captures the
, Dauntless and Her Escort.
HOVE TO BY SOLID SHOT,
Brought the Fleeing: Steamer DanntleM to
m Halt as She Steamed for Cuba?A
Prize Crew Was Pat on Board and the
Capture Taken In Charge?A Tug
With Anns and Coal Aboard Captured,
Jacksonville, Fla. (Special-).?The steamer
Dauntless and the tug R. L. Mabey, employed
by the Cuban Junta In transporting
arms and ammunition to the insurgents on
the island of Cuba, were captured early
Wednesday morning off the east coast of
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after a cbaso, during which the warship used
her guns.
The Dauntless left Palm Beaoh over two
weeks ago with a filibustering expedition,
and since then, it is claimed, she has made
two more trips to the island, securing the
arms from one of the Florida keys, where
the Cuban, agents have established a sort of
warehouse. The State Department at
Washington have been greatly worried by
the success of the Dauntless as a filibuster,
Doiain)) TTTQC conf Smith nnriAr nr.
ders to seize the vessel at all haaardo.
When the Raleign arrived off St. Augustine,
her commander was informed that the
Dauntless was below New Smyrna waiting
for the R. L. Mabey to bring her a cargo of
coal and arms. The Raleigh immediately
steamed south, and about 6 o'clock a. m.
sighted the Dauntless well out at sea. A
signal from the Raleigh was disregarded by
fthe Dauntless, and the latter vessel crowded
on steam and tried to escape.
Then the Raleigh fired a blank cartridge
which startled the New Smyrna people and
p sent them to the house tops, where they
eould soan the sea. They saw the Raleigh
in her chase of the Dauntless, the latter apparently
going so fast that the former sent a
solid shot across the filibuster's bows, bat
still the Dauntless pursued her oourse.
Another solid shot was fired by the cruiser
which struok the water near the Dauntless
and threw waves all over her. Then the
Dauntless came to and the Raleigh sent a
prize orew op board.
As the Raleigh and Dauntless came up the
ooast, the tug R. L. Mabey was sighted. The
Mabey headed for Mosquito Inlet and tried
to escape, but was brought to by three solid
hots in quiok succession from the Raleigh.
Two of the shots struck within ten feet of the
Viihev and oausart the little tnct to reel a3
though she had been dealt a mortal blow. A
prize crew from the Raleigh was also sent
board the Mabey and they found herjloaded
deep with ooal and arms for the Dauntless.
' The Dauntless, it is said, had no arms on
board.
The Raleigh proceeded north witn her
prizes and arrived off St. John's Bar, where
tt*e filibusters are now laying tinder the
cruiser's guns. The Dauntless and Mabey
will be sent up to Jacksonville In the morning
and turned over to the United 8tates
officials.
W. A. Bisbee, who is a brother of the Collector
of Customs here, owns the Dauntless,
and Captain Lomm, of Brunswick, Oa.,
commands the vessel. Dr. J. C. Lengle,
President of the State Bank of Jacksonville,
owns the Mabey, and her commander is
Captain Canute. The Cubans here claim
that there has been treachery, and some
sensational disclosures are expected.
PRINCETON'S SESQUICENTENNIAL.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland Join in
tbe Unique ^Celebration.
Never was there such a college celebration
as that which marks the sesqaicentennial o'
Princeton University ,|at Princeton,N. J. The
first day was all decorous and scholarly.
On the second day the morning was devoted
to learning, the afternoon to athletics and
the evening to enthusiasm, display, fireworks.
In her maddest celebration of athletic victories
Princeton never saw such a demonstration.
Thousands of people crowded around the
campus just in front of old Nassau Hall,
forming a gigantic hollow square, in the
center of which was the bandstand. In front
of Nassau Hall was the reviewing stand.
President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland, escorted
by the Philadelphia City Troop of
Cavalry, arrived and took their places on
the stand at 9 o'clock.
It was not until 10 o'olock that the sesquioentennial
procession entered the
campus and began the maroh past the
President and his company. The Seventyflret
Regiment Band from New York led the
procession. They were followed by the
Mercer Blues, Princeton's student military
company, uniformed in the old Colonial
colors, blue and white, and wearing cockade
hats. The Yale delegation, in cap and
gowns, came next,
1* ip nAint DraaMonf PluralonH nrpcap/l
the electrlo button which lighted the hundreds
of electric lamps that covered Nassau
Hall, causing the old building under the il-',
lamination to look like a white marble palace.
Following the military companies in the,
parade were 3000 undergraduates and alumni;
grouped with their various classes, all carrying
torches, each class having baunersand
transparencies. Each division halted in front
of the reviewing stand and cheered thd
President, Mrs. Cleveland and Dr. Patton.
The class of '96 carried a large transparency
reading, "Grover, send your boys to
Princeton," that called forth great applause
as it passed.
After the entire procession had passed and
filed into their places within the great
square, torchlights were extinguished anil
all joined in singing college songs. A magnificent
display of fireworks illuminated the
eampus for half an hour.
Repeated calls were made by the crowd for
ibe President to speak, but ho did not respond.
At 11 o'clook the President and party
leu rn? siana unaer inoir escort, anu me
thrones of spectators about the campus disperse
i immediately.
Dunng the afternoon the trustees of the
old College of New Jersey met for the !ast
lime a3 a corporate institution. When th?y
adjourned the life of the new Princeton Unixereitv
was begun.
I Semt-Centennlal of AnseatheBla.
The fiftieth anniversary of the successful
nse of ether to produce anaesthesia in surgical
operations was commemorated at the
Massachusetts General Hospital In Boston,
Mass., a few days ago. A number of papers
wcr* read by prominent physicians nnJ
snrs:aons, and Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia.
oontributed a poem entitled "The
Birth and Death of Tain."
Killed Family and Self.
A newspaper and magazine writer named |
Fulenberg, killed his wife, his three children.
and himself at Blacewitz, near Dresdeu,
Germany, by putting poison in theii
food. Fulenbers: had become despondent
and desperate through his increasing impoverishment
and failure to obtain employment.
Xew Uge for Wine.
Water being scarce, 150,000 gallons of uew
wine were used to quench a fire in Kor
bett's Winery, near Guerteville, Cal.. saving
10t>,000 gallons of old wine irom tht
flame.-.
Cycling Xotes.
A Chicago street band makes its tour# i
abou: ti:e city oa bicycles.
Bicycle riding is said to produce the high
arihed instep so much desired by women.
Tandem road races are rare, but recently
luu ritcilic VjOUSI litiu ou<j iu nuitu smrau
teams Waited.
The theatre goers of Philadelphia have
sUrte I a new fad. that of going to the theatre
on wheels. Ono prominent place of
amusement checks the bicycles free.
One of the conspicuous effects of the widespread
interest in the bicycle is tne Rrowih
of roadhouses and the tendency to the revival
of old-time hotels, especially in places
that are off the line of railroad tr?? ?el.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
VaiUtftM 1 tarns.
The cornerstone of the Hall of History,
the first of the buildings to comprise the
American University, was laid in the preeenceof
a large crowd of spectators and with
interesting exercises. J
Secretary Olney issued an order of farreaching
effect upon the American Consular
Service, which abolishes many of the fees
apainst which foreign shippers*and domestio
importers have so long protested, and at the
same time sweeps away the lucrative attractions
of many Consulates abroad, particularly
those in Great Britain.
Chief Justice William Adams Richardson,
of the Court of Claims, formerly Secretary of
the Treasury, died in Washington.
Collector Kilbreth, of New York, reported
to Washington that an attempt had been
made to collect campaign contributions in
violation of the Civil Service law.
The Chinese Legation in Washington has
determined to stamp out the Highbinder societies
in San Francisco.
After a conference with the Superintendent
of the Military Academy. Secretary Lamont
announced that Colonel Mills would
be continued as commandant of cadets at
West Point another year.
The War Department hnj rejected the bids
for forgings for mortars And small gunsninety
in all--and called for new proposals.
1 no Drices ranged from about twenty-nine
cents to thlrty-flve cent9 a pound, whloh was
considered excessive.
The Navy Department was advised of the
arrival of the Bancroft at Smyrna; officials
of the Administration sav that she will go
to Constantinople with or without permission
from the Turkish Government.
The State Department received Information
from Minister Terrell that the Turkish
Government had granted permission for the
families of naturalized Armenian-Americans
to emigrate to the United States.
The President appointed Arthur L. Brown,
of Bhode Island, United States Dlstriot Judge
of the District of Bhode Island.
Domestic.
Wheat fell In American markets owing to
sales of long stock, but the foreign demand
was not lessened. Bradstreet's, too, announced
5,000,000 bushels increase in the
world's visible stock.
W. T. Bambusch, the absconding banker
from Juneau, Wis., committed suicide in the
National Cemetery at Fredericksburg, Va.
A farmer named Buttks, who has a large
Income from oil leases, was murdered on his
larm, aoout seventeen muessoutn 01 roieao,
Ohio, by robbers, and his wife seriously injured.
The robbers obtained little booty.
The total registration of Chicago is 383,515, ,
an inorease of 36,000 over 1894.
Mr. Bryan spoke in twenty Indiana towns
in one day. At Muncie gold men and
silver men armed with clubs nearly had a ;
collision. !
Dr. W. H. Oidding, Superintendent of the
Vermont State Insane Asylum, was arrested, 1
charged with maltreating female patients. i
Illinois Day was observed in Canton, Ohio,
and Major McKiuley received more than 9000
visitors. There was a great parade of horsemen.
Mr. McKinley made seven speeohes.
Two men were killed and three injured
while working on repairs to the University
of Virginia building at Charlottesville, Va.
A battle which occurred at Belle Ellen
mines. Bibb County. Alabama, between white
and colored miners, resulted in tne death of
two men and the wounding of two others.
Major MoKinley addressed at Canton,
Ohio, delegations from Sewickley, Penn.,
and Summit County, Ohio.
W. J. Bryan made a journey from Detroit
to Zanesville, Ohio, making speeohes at way
stations.
The town of Enfield, Ma?s., was visited by
a fire which wiped out the whole business
parr. The fire started In a bakery, presumably
from an overheated oven.
Richard Sandow, three years old, living at
Landisville, N. J., was accidentally shot and
Instantly killed at his home. 8andow's
brother picked up a shotgun to examine it
and it was accidentally discharged. The
hftc atArtH lnnHno af If an/4 +V?? full /*horrrA
entered his breast.
Harman Calaman shot and killed David
Pearl and seriously wounded John Beideltnan
at Pond Bank, Penn. Pearl and Beidelman
were drunk and bad raised a disturbance
at a neighboring ohurob.
The sixteen-year-old son of JohnRwan, a
carpenter, of Belleville, N. J., who sought in
vain to get woik, died of starvation.
Mustapha Bey, the new Turkish Minister
to the United States, arrived at New York.
W. T. Rambusch, banker and real estate
dealer, disappeared from Juneau, Wis., defaulting
to the extent of $250,000.
At Suffolk. Va., Merritt Briggs, one of
Eastern Virginia's leadine criminal lawyers,
died while pleading <1 case in the Circuit
Court room.
Owing to tbe fact that the drought damaged
to a considerable extent the wheat crop
of Mexico, and that the Mexican Government
has removed the duty on urain for a period
of several months, Kansas grain is now on
the move into M?xico. <
Tho Bank of Commerce, Buffalo, N. Y.,
closed its doors.
f!n1nn?l Snlllmon nolnh mnn of finnnftcti
cut, was garroted and robbed by women in
front of the Union League Club of Chicago. i
While the United States battleship Indiana
was on her way from Hampton Roads to the
Port of New York all of her eight-inch turrets
broke fiom their gearing at once,
seriously menacing the safety of the ship. ,
The sum of $600,000 in gold coin was withflrawn
from the Sub-Treasury, New York
City, and deposited in the Chase National
Bank.
The Second National Bank, the oldes
financial institution of Rockford, 111., has
gone into voluntary liquidation. The result
is due to a steady shrinkage of deposits
since July 1.
Two freight trams on the Northeastern
Road came into collision flfty-three miles
from New Orleans. La. Both engines were
wrecked and the cars were burned. The
killed were Engineer Fulcher and Fireman
Alexander (colored), of the north-bound
f rflln
Thomas E. Watson mailed from Thomson,
Ga., his letter of acceptance of the Populist
nomination for Vice-President to Senator
Marion Butler at Chicago.
The Merchants' Bonk, Atlanta, Ga., has
closed. The bank Is a State Institution, with
a paid-up capital of $200,000; surplus, $25,000:
deposits, $555,000; loans and discounts,
$430, <00.
Mrs. Janet Finley Weir Little, of Huntington,
N. J., has surprised that oommunity by
marrying her farm hand, named Drake.
Temporary receivers were appointed by
the United 8tates Court at Wilmington,
Del., for the Bay State Gas Company, of
which J. Edward Addlcks is 'President, and
former Senator Higgins, as oounsel for William
Buchanan, the complainant, forcibly
opened the office desk.
There was great excltment in the wheat
pit. New York City, and prices advanced two
cent*, touching 81?^ cents a bushel.
IPAdolphus Coles, the banker who disappeared
from New York in 1894, leaving depositors
to whom he owed half a million
dollars, has beon arrested In Philadelphia.
Foreign NotM.
Li Hung Chang ha9 arrived at Pekin,
China, and will shortly prasent his report to
the Emperor.
The Ecuador Government has submitted
to the Convention a scheme for a return to
the gold standard.
A despatch from Paris announces that the
wedding of the Marquis des MonstiorsMerinvllle
and Miss Mary Gwendolin Byrd
Caldwell was celebrated at St. Joseph's
Church, in the Avenue Hoche.
* Mini, ter Terrell said in an interview in
Constantinople that it was highly improbable
that the United States would seek to meddle
in Turkey's domestic affairsMadrid
expeots a rebellion in Spain, it is
reported, unless the revolts in Cuba and the
Philippines be crushed within a month.
An attempt was made to wreck the train
on which were the King of Spain, Queon
Regent and members of the court.
Re-eritorcfments of 3000 Spanish troops,
led by four Generals, will start for tho Philippine
Islands on November 12, to take part
in tho campaign against the insurgents
there.
The American Line steamer Paris reached
Southampton, England, having completed
the passage with her starboard engine disabled
in about eleven da "
ALTCELD DEFENDS HIMSELF.
The Governor of Illinois Makes in Addrena
in New York City.
Governor John P. Altgeld, of Illinois,
who has been the most conspicuous lender of
the Bryan and free sliver campaign in the
West, visited New York City and addressed
a mass meeting of German Democrats at
Cooper Union.
It was one of the largest meetings ever
hold in and around Cooper Union. Men who
dr>n? business In that neighborhood for
years say they never sa^ a larger crowd
gathered there.
OOVEBNOB JOHN P. ALTOELD.
Altgeld'a speeoh was a lengthy and studied
affort which took him more than two hours
to deliver. In It he slighted all other issues
of the campaign raised by the Chicago platform
to discuss the question of Federal interference.
To tho dlsousslon of thl3 particular
question, as It bore upon the great railroad
strike in Chicago, he devoted more than
one-half of his time. The entire speech had
Tor Its motive the justification of Governor
iltgeld for the course he took at the time of
that strike.
SATOLLi'S FAREWELL
rhe Cardinal Sails for Rome, His American
Mission Heine Ended.
Cardinal Satolli, the retiring Apostolic
Delegate to this country, sailed from New
fork for Italy on the steamship Kaiser Wil?
helm II. in spite of a week of tireless sightseeing,
conferences and receptions he was
the same smiling, vigorous and interested
man that he was when he began to say farewell,
and as the vessel swung out out into
jrf
CABDIN'AL 8AT0LLI.
the stream the rather short man in plain
blaok olotties who vigorously waved a handkerchief
from the main deck was the most
noticeable figure on board. Just before
bidding farewell the Cardinal said: "My
mission in America has been thoroughly enjoyable
and, I trust, fruitful of good. I
leave the country with nothing but kindness
In my heart for the pcwons with whom I
have lived for four years. Especially I shall
remember with pleasure the courtesy with
which I have been treated by the American
press."
HENRY E. ABBEY DEAD.
The Famous Operatic and Theatrical Man*
ager .Expires Suddenly.
Henry E. Abbey, the world-famous operatic
impresaario and theatrioal manager
died suddenly In tho Osborne Apartment
House, at Seventh avenue and Fifty-seventh
Btreet, New York City. Hia death, up to a
few hours before it happened, was entirely
unexpected even by his relatives and most intimate
friends.
HENRY E. ABBEY.
Henry E. Abbey, at the time of his death,
was fifty years old. He was born in Akron.
Ohio, in 1846. His father was a jeweler, and
he worked in hts father's store and was for a
time a member of a cornet band. Later he
became the manager or the local tneatre,
and from Akron eventually went to Cleveland,
Ohio, as an employe of John Ellsler'a
Euolld Avenue Opera Honae. Thence h?
moved to New York City and began the
career that made Dim famous. Hisflrji failed
six months ago.
STRUCK OIL IN THE OSAGES' LAND
Valuable Discoveries Made in Payne and
l'awnee Counties.
Great excitement exists in the eastern
port of Oklahoma and In Payne and Pawnee
Counties, In the Osage Indian Nation, over
the discovery of oil in great quantities. It
has leaked out that the Standard Oil Company
has secured leases on thousands of
acres and twenty other companies have purchased
leases consisting of maoy thousands
of acres. At Oleveland a wonderfully rich
flow of oil was found by a farmer who was
boring a well.
Ex-Senator Ferry Dead.
Thomas Whltor Ferry, twelve years United
Slate3 Senator from Mlchigau, Aotlng VicePresident
after the death of Mr. Wilson, and
a National flguro In tho Bolknap impeachment
and the Electoral count of 1876-7, died
of apoplexy at Grand Haven. Mich.
Late Trade Statistics In Paragraphs.
The exportation of American flour to Mexico
is steadily increasing.
Tho United States consumed nearly 2,000,000
tons of sugar last year.
Nearly one-half of the Imports of the
United States are free of dut,7.
A GREAT RISE IN WHEAT.
Excitement on the Chicago and New
York Exchanges.
" DOLLAR WHEAT" IS PREDICTED.
Heavy XJCmanu lur nnjieu (UO
Market?Liverpool Showed a Rite of
Nearly Six Cent* on the December
Crop?Prices for Grain Advance All
Over the World?The Farmer Profits.
Chicaqo, IN. (Special).?In the midst of
& scene of wild excitement, such as veteran
traders recall in war times, December wheat
opened Monday morning on the Chicago
Board of Trade anywhere from 78% cents to
79% cents, after closing officially Saturday
at. 75% centi It was an average three cent
{amp to begin the faror with, and in Its
startling suddenness and effect it came like
a bomb in the Board. Eighty-cent wheat was
missed by a quarter of a cent only, the top
notch of the sensational session being 79%
cents.
Before the commotion in the pit began,
the' English cables posted on 'Change told
the feverish crowd that more wheat was
imntari hu TTnlt-nd Kingdom. London.
Liverpool, Pari6 and Berlin contributed their
quota of ball news and served to tune the
excited crowd to the pitch of a three-cent
rise at the opening. Traders on both sides
of tbe market realized it was not a local one,
whioh was shown by the prices remaining
firm in the face of heavy selling of long lines
by holders to get the profit.
The aggregate amount of business was
something enormous, and was characterized
by wild excitement and frequent and violent
fluctuations. Strange to say, the sixcent
rise at Liverpool was only responded to
with a three-cent rise here to begin with. In
fact, Minneapolis was the only home market
to come anywhere near being as strong a3
the markets abroad.
But after every violent decline there was a
more violent reaction, and the trend of the
nbarket was upward until the receipt of the
world's visible supply figures. They showed
an increase of 2,374,000 bushels, and were
the cause of a decline of 779? cents. The
fact of India having shipped 48,000 bushels
of wheat to Europe last week rather shook
the confidence of traders in their belief of a
total failure of the wheat crop in that ooun?
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WHEAT BOOMING IN NEW YORK.
A Sharp Advance in Liverpool Affects the
Produce Exchange.
New Yobk Citt (Speoial).?Wheat made
a sensational rise of five cents a bnshel Monday
on the Produce Exchange, and the wildest
excitement prevailed. Business in other
parts of the Exchange praotically ceased,
and during all the hours of business the
wheat pit was jammed with a dense mass of
frantic brokers. Cash wheat at 90 cents a
bushel?an advaace over the lowest of the
year of 28 cents was the day's reoord. The
close on Saturday for the December option
was 81% cents. Monday went 4% cents
better.
The exchange openod at 10.90 a. m. By
noon options amounting to 11,045,000 bushels
were sold, representing gains or losses of say
aboat #400,000. The Deoember future all mbed
steadily after the opening ouret, until It
touohed 86>? cents, an advancc of 29% cents
since June, of 21% cents since September 14
?Ave weeks?and of W/& nents in the last
two weeks. The prioe fluctuated above 86
the rest of the morning.
The highly sensational jump of the morning
was owing to the cables reporting an advance
of six cents a busbel in Liverpool, and
further bull news concerning the shortage
of crops in India. Russia, the Argentine Republic,
Australia and other wheat-raising
countries.
It is estimated that tho recent rise in the
cosh value of whe it and corn has increased
the wealth of the holders of those grains in
this country by $134,891,015 within the last
sixty days. Of this amouut the advance in
the price of wheat in the markets of the
world has contributed no less than $90,636,351,
and the rise In corn has enriched the
united estates 9*0,0*, oo*.
"Dollar wheat" is now the cry for the first
time in years. The United States produced
411,893,416 bushels of wheat this year. More 1
than half of this amount is believed to ba
still in the hands of the farmers themselves.
A great deal of it in fact has yet to be
threshed.
GRAIN POURING OUTWARD.
ucean xvuies Aiivnutmi, uui ou|>i?; u?
Ships is Inadequate.
Baltimof.k, Md. (Speofal).?The rush of
grain to Europe has caused ocean freight
rates from this port to jump up at a lively
rate. Vessels have been chartered at good
rates as far ahead as next March. Several
representative ship brokers say that the supply
of vessels is still unequal to the demand.
Pobtland, Oregon (Special).?More wheat
js being put afloat in Portland than
ever before in a similar length of time in the
history of the port. The shipments are far
in excess of those of any previous year, and
\ylth plenty of ships and plenty of wheat, the
good work will keep up.
EXCITEMENT IN LONDON.
The Rise of Wheat Causes Scenes Resembllnc
War Times.
London, England (By Cablegram).?The
rise in the price of wheat in America caused
something resembling consternation, and
when the American opening cable dispatches
were received there was a scone such as is
not usually witnessed except in time of war.
The advance appeals to be ohlefly due to
the sale of American wheat for India, which
greatiy frightened the speculators Cautious
observers think that a rise of $1.25 per quarter
in a week fully discounts the efteot of the
abnormal Indian demand.
Rise of Six Cents in Minneapolis.
MINNEAPOLIS, aimn. (Specialxnere was
a wild scene on 'Change here Monday morning
when wheat advanced six cents within
an hour, and there was a great scramble of
shorts to cover. It is said that some of them
will not be able to raise the money to cover
their margins.
A Fisherman's Boat Capsized by a Deer.
Peter Pohren, of Port Jervis, N. Y., a conductor
on the Delaware division of the Erie
Railroad, went to Swamp Mill Pond to flsh
for pike. He was in a boat and saw a deer
spring Into the water, followed by dogs. He
tried to head it off as it was swimming across
the pond, but the animal, which was a good
sized buck, rose in the water and stuok its
fore feet in the boat, capsizing it and throwing
fisherman and ilsh into the water. Mr.
Pohren swam ashore and so did the deer,
the latter disappearing in the woods.
CREW COTTON TOO FAST.
Offered a Fortune to Allow His Plants and
.Seeds to Be Destroyed.
A man living just outside of Atlanta, Oa.,
has three acres of leafless cotton which is
fAtiwfaan faaf lwr?Vi Tfr ? aim
UVLU 3(7VOU IV luuutau i wuk ut^u, k ITS
five times as much cotton as other plants.
A committee from South Georgia oalled oa
the owner and offered him $18,000 for all the
seed and the cotton, in order to destroy
them. He has offered forty bushels of the
seed to the New Orleans Exchange for 820,000.
OUTLAWS TAKE A TOWN.
'Dynamite Dick's" Gins Raids Carney
Oklahoma.
"Dynamite Dick, the Torror or the Oklahoma
Prairies," rode into Oarney, Oklahoma,
on a recent night and held up the
whole town.
He rode lu at the head of Ave of his trusty
followers and all wore heavy masts. In each
of his waving hands ttiore was a barking revolver,
aud out of his mouth oamo yell.s that
revived memories of the old days on the
plains.
The throe hundred inhabitants of the place
wore overawed and robbed by six desperados.
The thieves got away with a rich hau'. They
had cat the wires leading to the nearest town
and worked rapidly and to effect. *
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SENATOR MORRILL RE-ELECTED.
most Make* Him Her Representative
for the Sixth Time.
Both branches of the Vermont Legislature
in session at Montpeller elected Justin 9.
Morrill as United States Senator to succeed
himself for the full term of six years, beginning
on March 4, 1897. The vote in the
House was: Morrill, 217; Herbert F. Brigham,
Democrat. 17. There being no Democrats
In the 8enate, Mr. Morrill's election oy tnat
branch was unanimous.
BEKATOB JUSTIN 8. XOBRILL.
8enator Morrill is eighty-six years old, and
retains to a degree rarely paralleled his
powers both of mind and body. When he is
again sworn in as a Senator on Maroh 4 next
he will have beaten all records for service in
the Senate. Thomas H. E?nton, of Missouri,
who died in 1868, served thirty years in the
Senate. Mr. Morrill will begin his thirtyfirst
year of service on March 4.
Dnring the recent session of the Senate
Mr. Morrill was more constantly on doty in
the chamber and in the committee room
than many of the much younger Senators,
and, despite bis years, did bis work without
the help of a clerk.
THREE JUMPED TO DEATH.
A Terrible Tragedy In Front of the Goshen
(N. Y.) Station.
A horrible scene took place in frort or the
XT V mhl/ih vera a oHf.
AJJ.AU ucyub (kk UVDUCU| i.f> &<, TtutvH IIMW II ..
nessed by many passengers who were waitlng
on the platform to take a passenger train.
Just as the train was sweeping Into the
station a freight train going east passed by.
Three men jumped off the train and,
to the horror of those upon the platform.
right in front of the incoming passenger
train. With cries of terror the men tried
to roll themselves out of the way. But It
was too late.
In the glare of the headlight the spectators
saw them picked up by the pilot one after
the other and hurled to left ana right. Two
were tossed against the station. A third was
thrown against one of the freight cars and
bounded back again.
As soon as tne train came toasiaaasuu
the more stout-hearted of the spectators
went out and picked up the mangled m?n.
Two were dead,!killed in an instant The
third was badly hurt and was unconscious.
He was taken into the baggage room and
attended by a doctor. After a while he wa*
able to say that his name was Harrison, ant*
that he came from Faterson, N. J.
STEAMER LOST IN A FOC.
I lie Arago Goes Down on the Oregon
Coast With Large Loss of LU?.
During the prevalence of a dense fog the
steamer Arago, commanded by Captain
Reed, ran ashore on the North Spit entrance
to Coos Bay Harbor, on the Southern Oregon
coast, and is a total wreck. Among the passengers
lost are the following: E. H. McGraw,
of Coquelle City; John Norman, of
Marshflbid; F. 8. Parks and O. Patienoeo.
Of the ship's crew the following are
missing: M. P. Whipple, of San Francisco,
fireman; Erlo Wall, of San Fran
cisco, fireman; Richard Patterson, of dan
Francisco, steward; E. Fernandez, chief
cook; W. E. Brown, ohief engineer; O. E.
Kralger, sailor; Harry Sanders, eailor? C. F.
McCollum, purser; F. Warner, first officer;
J. Banks, second officer; C. Groghan. first
assistant engineer; P. Friel, second assistant
engineer. The survivors were taken to Empire
City on the tugboat Columbia.
The Arago sailed from San Francisco for
Cooe Bay. She discharged her cargo and
sailed for San Fraucisco, heavily loaded and
with a number of cabin and steerage passengers.
The ill-fated vessel was owned by
the Oregon Improvement Company.
KILLS FATHER AND SELF.
Double Tragedy Believed to Have Been
Due to Inianltjr.
Orrln D. Klnnie killed his aged father,
Daniel Kinnie, with an axe at Somervllle, N.
7., and afterward took his own life by banging.
The corpses were found in the house
barn. The fathor was lying face downward
with tw> great gashes ill his
liead, wbile the body of his son hone
from a rope tied to aa overhanging beam aU
most directly over tho body of his father. It
is supposed the son was attempting BUlelde
with a knife when stopped by his father and
that the son in desperation strtlok his father
down and proceeded in his Work Of selfdestruction
by hanging.
Insanity on the part of thesoD is supposed
to be the cause of the tragedy. The son Was
forty-seven years of age and married. Tii*
futher Was sevettty-onOi Both W0fB Well
known.
Shot by a squirrel Hunter.
Reuben Lawrence, aged sixty years, shot
and killed Joseph Dour in the l&tter'fl on the
outskirts of Waterbury, Coun. Lawrence
went hunting, with his grandson, and entered
the grove. Deur fired shots from his
revolver at Lawrouce, and then attempted
to arrest him. Ther? Wft9 a struggle, ftnd
the gun in Lawrence's hands was discharged,
tearing a gaping WoUhd through the hear'
ot Deur.
Chicago Registration 380,000.
The second and last day of registration in
Chicago showed that 85,COO names had been
placed upon the books when the poll.?
nnrt AAA MM tit A /I fen*
cinseUi kjYcr auj,w;u rugjaiuieu uu iuo m?i
ilny, making the total number of voters teg'
istored about 3S0,000.
New Trial for a Police Inspector.
The Goort of Appeals grantod a new trinl
and leave to apply for a chnngo of venue to ,
inspector William W. McLaughlin, of the
New York Police Department, who Was convioted
of extortion as a result of the LexoF
Investigation.
Child Coitntllta Suicide.
James Humphrey, the nine-ypar-old son ol
John Humparey, who has boou missing foi
four w?eks, was found dead in tho bushw
npar Whiting, Iud. fle Imd shot bin-'olf.
The boy whs said to be unhappy witlols
foster parents.
The Caatles to Ho Tried.
Mr. and Mrs. Waltor M. Castle, of Sad
Francisco, Cal., who wero recently remanded
in London, England, under a elmrgo ol
stealing a number of valuable furs nnd vari
?t.?_ i?,i,i m *9rtn nno hnii
for trial nt tho Clurkonwcli Suasions, on No
vombor 2.
^Oullawg .Show Dad Judfyttlfcnt.
Five outlaws appeared at the rnaoli of K
R. Brooke, an Englishman, near Tonawa,
Oklahoma, and commaaderi him to hold ujj
his hands. Hooreplied With bullets from his
revolver and shot two of his visitors dead
aad vrouaded a third. Ha is supposed to Uq
ricb.
REV. DRTAIZAGR
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE
NOTED DIVINE.
Subject: "Armageddon."
Text: "And he gathered them together la
a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon.1'?Itev.
xvl., 16.
Megiddo is the name of a mountain that
looks down upon Esdraslon, the greatest
battlefield that the world has ever seen.
There Barak fought the Canaanites; there
Gideon fought the Midianites; there Josiah
fought the invading Egyptians. The whole
rnoHnn qtnnria fnr haftlo nnrl fVin ArmncAH.
don of my text borrows its name from it,
and is here used, not geographically, but
figuratively, while setting forth the Idea
that there ia to be a world's closing battle,
tbe greatest of all battles, compared with
which the conflicts of this century and all
other centuries were insigniflcent, because
of the greater number of combatants engaged,
the greater victory and the greater
defeat. The exact date of that battle we do
not know, and the exact looallty is oncer*
tain. I may be in Asia, Europe, Africa, or
America; but the fact that such a battle will
take place is as certain as God's eternal
truth. When I use the superlative degree in
regard to that coming conflict, I do not forget
that there have been wars all along on
stupendous scale. As when at Marathon Miltlades
brought on his men, not ia ordinary
march, but in full run, upon the horsemen
of Persia and tbe blaok archers of
Ethiopia, and scattered them, and crying,
"Bring fire! Bring Are!" set into flam? the
ships of the invaders. As when Plzarro ovar
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CUIUU jrcru. A3 VYUOU X illllp IUD WTCWUU
triumphed over Portugal. As when the Huns
m?t the Goths. As when three hundred
Spartans sacrificed themselves at Thermopylae.
As when the Carthagenians took Akriffontum.
As when Alexander headed the
Macedonian phalanx. As when Hannibal invaded
Italy. Battle of Hastinjre! Battle of
Valmy! Battle of Arbela! Battle of Tours!
Battle of Borodino! Battle of Lucknow! Battle
of Solferlno! Battle of Fontenoy where
100.000 were slain! Battle of Chalons where
300,000 were massacred! Battle of Herat
where Genghis Khan destroyed 1,600,000
lives! Eattle of Neishar where 1,7^7,000
went down to death! 1,816,000 slain at Troy!
And American battles, too near us now to
allow us to appreciate their awful grandeur
and significance, except you who wero there,
facing the North or facing the South! But
all the battles I have named put together
will "hot equal in numbers enlisted, or fierceness,
or grandeur, or triumph, or rout, the
coming Armageddon contest. Whether it
shall be fought with printers' type or keen
steeJ, whether by brain or muscle, whether
by pen or carbine, whether by booming cannon
or thunders of Christian eloquence, I do
not know, and you may take what X say as
figurallva or literal, but take as certain what
8t. Jobi , in his vision on the rock9 of the
Grecian archipelago, Is pleased to call "Armageddon."
My sermon will first mention the regiments
that will be encaged in the conflict; then
Will say someimng 01 lue commtuiuen ou
both sides: and then speak of the battle
itself and the tremendous issues. Beginning
with those who will fight on the wrong
side, I first mention ihe Regiments Diabolic.
In this very chapter from which my
text is taken we are told tnat the spirits of
devils will be there. How many millions
of them no one can tell, for the statistics of
the satanic dominions have never been reported
and the roll of that host has never
do ?>arth been called; but from the direful,
and continental, and planetary work they
have already doue, ana the fact that every
man and woman 'ind ohild on earth has a
tempter, there must be at least sixteen hundred
millions of evil spirits familiar with
our world. Perhaps as many more are engaged
on especial enterprises of abomination
among the Nations and empires of the
sarth. Beside', hat there must be an lncon
ceivable number of inhabitants io realms
pandemonlac, staying there to keep the
great capitals of sin going from age to age.
Many of them once lived in heaven, but
engaging In conspiracy to put Satan on the
throne, they were hurled out and down, ana
they are now among the worst tnugs of the
aniverse. Having been in three worlds,?
Heaven, earth and hell,?they have all the
advantages of great experience. Their power,
their speed, their cunning, their hostility
wonderful beyond all statement! In the Armageddon
they will. I doubt not, be present
in full array. They will have no reserve
corps, but all will be at the front. There will
not only be soldiers in that battle who can
be seen and aimed at, but trocps intangible
an<l without corporeity, and .weapons may
strike clear through them without giving them
hurt. With what shout of defiance will they
climb up the ladders of Are and leap from
the battlements of asbestos into the last campaign
ot hell! Paul, the bravest of all men,
was Impressed with their might for evil when
he said, "We wrestle not aealnst flesh and
blood, but against principalities,and against
powers, and against the rulers of the darkness
in this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places." Oh, wnat an agitating
moment, whon the ranks diabolic move up
and take their places for conflicts In the Armageddon!
Other regiments who will march into the
flcht on the wrone side will be the Regl
ments Infidel. God gave but one revelation
to the human race, and these men have been
trying to destroy it. Many of the books,
magazines and newspapers, throagh perpetual
scoff at Christianity, and some of the
universities have becomo recruiting agencies
for those regiments. The greatest brigadier
of all those regiments, Voltaire, who closed
his lifn of assault upon Christianity by writing:
-"Happinessis a dream, and only pain is
real. I have thought so for eighty-four
years, aud I know no better plan than to resign
myself to the Inevitable and to reflect
that flies are born to be devoured by spiders
and man to be consumed by care. I wish
I had never been born." Ob. the God-forsaken
regiments of infidels, who, after having
spent their life antagonizing the only influence
tbat could make the earth better,
gather with their low wit and their vile sneer
and their learned idiocy and their horrible
blasphemy to take part against God and
righteousness in the great Armageddon!
Other regiments who will march into^the !
fight will be the Regiment Alcoholic. Tney (
will be made of the brewers' companies, dls- .
tillery owners and liquor dealers' assi oiaH^no
nnH tho hnnHrflHn of millions of.t:\eir
patrons. These millions of victims of f.'cohol
joined by the millions of the victim: of
arrack, the spirituous liquor of China :tnd
India, and Arabia, and Egypt, and Ceylon,
and Siam.
Other regiments who will march in or. ihe
the wrong side in the battle will be the Begiments
Mohammedan. At the present time
th^re are about one hundred and soventyflve
million Moslems. Their plain mission
is to kill Christians, demean womanhood,
and take possession of the earth in the interest
of ignorance, superstition, and moral
filth. The massacre of fifty thousand Armenians
in the last two or three years is only
one chapter in their effort to devastate the
earth of everything but themselves. So
determined are they in their bad work
that all the Nations of the earth put together
dare not say to them, "Stop or we will make
vou stop." My hope is that long before that
last battle of whioh I speak, the Turkish
Government, and with it Mohammedanism,
may be wiped out of existence. The Turkish
power of the last four hunlred years has
Deen the mightiest hindrance on earth to religious
liberty and moral improvement. H?r
extermination is prophesied in the Book of
* * * * - -n r\t *Ka /!* ?;{ m? 11 n nf I
iteveiauon in mo usum .?? -4. ,
the River Euphrates, and she i3 going rapidly,
thank God! But if the Bible prophecy
concerning the drying up of the Euphrates
is not fulfilled before the battle mentioned
in my text. Mohammedanism will march in
with sword, and poison, and torch to take
hor part in the great Armageddon.
Yea! to show the magnitude of the forces
on the wrong side, I have to tell you what is
left of heathenism at that time will march
into the conflict. There are one hundred
and fifty million fetish idolators, two hundred
and twenty million Brahmins, four
hundred million Buddhists. Through the
subltmest movement of this century, the
missionary movement, all the time gathering
in momentum, I believe all, or nearly
all. ot th'it seven hundred and seventy millions
of heathendom will be converted to
God. But that which is not converted will
in?A fhrt Armntrft/JHnn nn thA wrnnt?
eide.
Other regiments on that wrong side will
bo made up of offenders of all sorts?the dofrauders,
the libert nes, tho dynamiters, the
Anarchists, the oppressors and the foes of
society, the criminals of all Nations, by
whatever name they are now called, or
shall then be called. They may not before
that have openly taken sides, but then they
will be oompelled to take side*. With what
venom, with viiat violence, with what des
U-'
peration they win fall Into Hne at the gnat i
Armageddon! la It not appalling, theee,
uncounted regiments of tne earth, to ba
joined by the uncounted regiments from
perdition? Can any power oope with them?
Especially when I tell yoa who their eom*
mander is, for so muoh in all was deoendi
upon the chieftain. Their leader win not
be a political accident or a military "happen
so." By talent, and adroitness and J
courage, and unceasing industry he baa
come to the bad eminence. He disputed the
throne of heaven with the Almighty, but
no one has ever disputed the throne of eternal
night with this monarch who will In tha
lnat hattle tak? field in neraon. Milton
o&Us him Lucifer, Goethe oafls him Mephl#topheles,
the Hebrew call; him Abaddon, tha
Greek calls him Apollyon. He Is the Imper- 1
sonatlon of all malevolence, of ail opprea*
9lon, of all oruelty. The summing up of all
falsehood. In his makeup nothing bad was
left out and nothing good was put in, and
he is to be the General, the Commander-tap
Chief of all the forces on the wrong side of
the great Armageddon. He has benn In
more battles than you have ever read about,
and he has gained more victories than have
ever been celebrated in tbls world. But I
guess this old warrior of Pandemontami
will not have an undisputed field. I guess
there will be an army to dispute with his
forces. I nave mentioned the supremacy of
this world. I guess our troops will not
have to run when, on the day mentioned
In my text, all the Infernal batteries shall be
unlimbered. We have been reviewing the
troops diabolic. We have been measuring
the oalibres oftheir guns. We have been examining
tnelr ammunition wagons. Now
let- us look at the forces to be marsh&lled in
the Armageddon on the right side.
first or an, i mention tne regiments
Angelic. Alas! that the suhjeot of demon- ' '
olopry seems better understood than thfl
subject of angelology. Bat the glorloxu
spirits aroand the throne and all the bright
immortals that fill the galleries and level*
of the nniverse are to take part In that last
great fight, and the Regiments Angelic are
the only regiments oapable of meeting the
Regiments Platonic. To show you sojne- '
thing of an angel's power, I ask yoa to
consider that jost one of them slew one
hundred and eighty-five thousand of Sennacherib's
hosts In a night, and It Is not a
tough arithmetioal question to solve. If one
angel oan slay one hundred and eighty-live
thousand troops in a night, how many oan| .
five hundred millions of them slay? The
old Book says that "They exoel In
strength." It is not a celestial mob, but a
disci pled host, and they know their rank.
Cberablm, seraphim, thrones, principalities
and powers! And tne leader of thoee
regiments in Mlcbael the Archangel. David
saw just one group of angels sweep past,
and they were twenty thousand eharlote&
Paul, who in the Gamaliun college had his
faculties so wonderfully developed, confesses
his incapacity to count them by saying,
"Ye are oome to Mount Zion and an
innumeraDie company 01 angeis. iiqaoa i
soul on earth has a guardian angel, then . ' %
there most be sixteen hundred million I
angels on earth to-day. Beside that, ,]
heaven must be full of angels, those who j
stay there; not only the twelve angels whoh .
we are told, guard the twelve gates, but
those angels who help In the worship, and go
on mission from mansion to mansion, and' *]
help to build the hosannas and enthrone the
halleluiahs and roll the doxologlesof the
service that never ends. But they all, if ro>1
quired, will be in the last fight between!
holiness and sin. Heaven cflttld afford to -k
adjourn, jost one day, and empty all Its,
temples, and mansions, and palaces, and
boulevards into that one battle.
The next regiments that I see marching
into the fight will be the Begiments Ecclesiastic.
According to the last accounts, and
praotlcaliy only in the beginning of the got* /.3a
pel movement which, proposes to take the
whole earth for God, there are foar million . >
six hundred thousand Methodists, three.
million seven hundred and twenty-five thou- i
sand Baptists, one million two hundred and j
eighty thousand three hundred and thirty* .1
threw* Preahvterians. one million two hundred
and thirty thousand Lutherans, and fix J
hundred and forty thousand Episcopalians. 1
But The present statistics of churches will be ]
utterly swamped when, after all the great $
denominations have done their best wprk,
the s.'^r/eet of all the sects will have more
numbers than the present enrollment of alii
denominations throughout Christendom. T
see them moving into the ranks, carrying a -v
standard striped and starred; striped as sag* :'~n
Resting Him by whose stripes we are healed,
and starred as with the promise that thoee
who turn many to righteousness shall shine a*
the stars, forever and ever. Into that battle
on our side will roll those mighty engines of
f ower, the printing presses of Christendom.
nto that battle will also move the slightest
telescopes, that shall bring the stars in theft
courses to fight for our God.
Again, the Regiments Elemental will oome ,
into that battle on the right side. - The
winds! God showed what He could do with
them when the splintered timbers of thaP"--^
ships of the Spanish Armada were strewn
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on me rootca ui owuooq, bucw#/ buu m?
Hebrides. The waters! He showed what He
could do with them when He pat the whole
earth under them, leaving it subaqueous one
hundred and fifty days.' The earthquakes!
He showed what He could do with them
when He let Caracas drop into the open
mouth of horror and the Islands of the ({ea
went into entombment The lightnings! He
showed what He oould do with them when
He wrapped Mqunt Sinai in flame, and we
have all s*en their flashing lanterns moving
with the chariots of the midnight hurricane.
All the Begiments Elemental will come inonr
side in the great Armageddon. Come and let
us mount and ride along the line, and review
the troops of Emanuel, and flnd that the
Begiments Terrestrial and Celestial that come
into that battle on the right side are, as compared
with those on the wrong side, two to
one, a hundred to one, a thousand to one.
But do not let us shout until after we have seen
the two armies clash in the last struggle.
Oh, my soul! The battle of all time and
all eternity opens. "Forward!" ''Forward!"
is the command on both sides given. _
lAnn Knoo r\f OfmtCMJ VDVOP CF A
J.UQ ivug iiuwg w? W?M u- wV ffw, w _
swing to and fro. Swords of troth again*!
engines Infernal. Black horse cavalry of per* I
ditlon against white horse cavalry of heaves. ' I
The redemption of this world and the honor I
of the throue of Ood to vindicate, how tie- I
mendous is the battle! The army of right
eousness seems giving away; bat no! It Is
only a part of the manoenvre of the infinite ?
i?ht. It is a deploy of the host ooleetiaL
What a meeting in this field of splendor 9
and wrath, of the angels, and of the H
diabolic, of hosanna and blasphemy, of
song and curse, of thedlvlne and the sat&nle.
The thunderbolts of the Almighty bant IB
and blaze upon the foe. Boom! Boom!
By the torches of lightning that illuminated fl
the scene I see that the crisis of the Arm a
geddon has come. It is the turning point H
or this last battle. The next moment will
decide all. Aye! the foroes of Apollyon B
are breaking ranks. See! See! They fly! fl
Some on foot, some on wing; they fly. H
Back over the battlements of perdition thar H
go down with infinite crash, all the Begl- H
ments Diabolic! Back to the mountain* Urn
and caves the armed hosts of earth, orylng HI
a" ihey retreat to the rocks and mountain*,
"Fall on us and hide as from the face of Him |H
that sittetn upon cue luruuo, ?uu uvui
the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day
of His wrath has come, and who shall be
able to stand." And while Apollyon. the
prisoner of war, is being dragged in onalB0 JBfl
to his dungeon, and our Conqueror is r?mounting
His throne, I look off npon th? JH
battlefield, and among the slain I And
oareasses of Mohammedanism, and PapCi^^^HK
lam, and Atheism, and Infidelity, and dHH
sipatlon, and Frand, and multitudinc^^^^N
Wrong, s'.rewing the plain, and I hear
angel that standeth in the sun crying in
words of Revelation, to all the fowls
tiy in the midst of heaven?the eagles,
the vultures, and the hawks, and the a'.^H^^H
trosses?"Come and gather yourselves
gether unto the supper of the great
that ye mav cat the flesh of kings, and
flesh of captains, and the flesh of mtg^^^HH
men. and the flesh of horses, and of
that sit on them."
'I'lm r?*nnhaq(aH A rmnirfiildrm of the
has been fought, and Christ and His
or* have won the day. The kingdom^^Hj^HH
this world have become the kingdom^^^^^H
our Lord and His Christ. All the Chrls^^H^JE
workers of our time, you, my hearers,
you, my readers, ana all the Christian
ers of all the ages, have helped on
magnificent result, and the victory is
m much as theirs. This moment invl^^HHH
all outsiders, through the ransomed blpo^K^^HJ
tint everlasting Covenant, to get int(T^B^^B|
ranks ot the conquerors, and under the
ner of our Leader, I shall not close
service \vitli prayer, as we usually
immediately give out the Moravian
by James Montgomery, appropriate
written in 1819, but more appropriat^^^H^I
1896, and ask you, with full voices, as^HQ
as with grateful hearts, to chant it.
See Jehovah's banner furl'd, H|HH
Sheathed His sword; He speaks?
And the kingdoms of this world HHB
Are the kingdom of HLs Son.